Our club was founded in 1991, as the Madison MG Group, in order to bring people with an interest in British cars together. This leads to diversity, but the common thread among our members is that everyone likes to talk about cars…. driving, maintaining, and restoring.

Our club members are very knowledgeable about their cars and can provide great technical support to someone who's looking for help or just another opinion. And there's a wealth of experience among our members when it comes to looking at a potential purchase; we've all done it at least once! Some of our members have a good stash of spare parts and special tools, too, or can at least point someone in the right direction.

This site is part of the MG Webring. What's that? It's a link to 271 other MG webpages. When you're finished looking at our site come back to the bottom of this page.

Currently our membership consists of about 75 households. The bulk of our members lives around Madison and Milwaukee, but we also have club members as far north as Green Bay and out of state.

Madison British Car Group publishes a monthly newsletter, "Rumblings",  and holds monthly meetings during the storage season.

In addition, some of us like to get into our cars and drive them around to different places! Several of us have gone to University Motors Summer Parties in Grand Rapids, area car shows, and to GOF events. These events are also posted in our "Rumblings"  newsletter with a contact name if you're interested in finding more info.

Dues: $20 per household for the first year. Name badges are $5. Sweatshirts, hats, and T-Shirts with the club logo are also available. (The sweatshirts are warm; the T-Shirts are very cool!)
A Friendly Reminder: Member Dues are due.

New Members Please do not forget to fill out our interactive Membership Form, print it, and send it in!
The form may not be "interactive" with older operating systems and versions of Adobe Reader. It can still be printed and filled out by hand.

Note: "Rumblings"  is a .pdf file. If you need a FREE .pdf file reader click on the Adobe Logo.

Apr 24 Girls' Day at Dawn Farris' house in Stoughton 1PM - ?? 30minute and 1 hour massages. Chick flicks. Decadent food. Bring a dish to pass. Email Judy Davis to reserve a massage time slot. geneandjudydavis@gmail.com May 1 Drive your MGA Day (sponsored by NAMGAR) May 8 Cars on State ---- 10am-3pm State Street, Madison, WI http://www.carsonstate.com May 14-16 SVRA Spring Vintage Weekend RoadAmerica, Elkhart Lake, WI http://www.svra.com or www.roadamerica.com May 22 Barn Quilt run Info in left column May 29 'til June 5 Drive your British Car Week June 5-6 Champagne British Car Festival Bloomington, IL http://www.champagnebritishcarfestival.com June 5 Mid-Iowa Brit/Euro Car Classic http://www.midiowacarclassic.com June 20 British Car Field Day Sussex, WI http://www.mg3club.org June 26 Road Apples Car Showzzz A copy of the flyer Angell Park Motor Speedway, Sun Prairie www.roadapples.org July 1-3 GOF Central 2010 Huron, OH http://www.gofcentral.com

al Challenge Vintage Races RoadAmerica, Elkhart Lake, WI http://www.roadamerica.com July 14 Devils Lake drive More info to follow July 15-18 Kohler International Challenge Vintage Races RoadAmerica, Elkhart Lake, WI http://www.roadamerica.com July 26-29 NAMGAR GT-35 Lake Lawn Resort, Delevan Sponsored by MG3 http://gt35.namgar.com/ July 31 Il Jaguar Club Festival and Concours Cantigny Estate, Wheaton, IL info: 815-830-1925 August 8 Vintage Celebration Botham Vineyards, Barneveld, WI http://www.bothamvineyards.com August 21-22 Masterpiece Style and Speed Showcase 2010 Featured marques Duesenberg and Alfa Romeo Milwaukee Waterfront http://www.milwaukeemasterpiece.com August 28 Rosie's Ride It is a fundraiser for Gilda's Club of Madison http://www.gildasclubmadison.org/ email/rosiesride2101.pdf September 10-12 VSCDA Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival RoadAmerica, Elkhart Lake, WI http://www.roadamerica.com October 1-3 Fall Tour for MBCG and MG3. This year it's Milwaukee's turn to host the Fall Tour - Quality Inn in Wisconsin Rapids. Info at: bjozwowski@wi.rr.com More events to be added????? Email Rich if you find any to add:n9amw@att.net British Cars of America site for LOTS more, sorted by marque: http://www.britishcarsofamerica.com

There are many enthusiasts who make parts or provide services for British cars but do not have the sales or cash to cover the costs of advertising. These stalwart enthusiasts are difficult to find as word-of-mouth is their only promotional avenue. Yet their products or services are a valuable contribution to the great enthusiast body, so they have to be nurtured. Thus the British Car Cottage Industries web site! This not-for-profit web site is a depository for such artisans and offers a central point for British car owners to find. The individuals that get listed on the site are exposed to many potential buyers and the site is becoming quite well known.

So I am looking for more people to come on the site and wonder if anyone has names of likely candidates. More information can be found at: www.britcot.com or email: barrie@look.ca

Barrie Robinson
Web Master
British Car Cottage Industries
www.britcot.com

The following is a letter which was passed on to me by Dave Woerpel (Bug-eye Sprite and MGA) from Dave Leib, of Palatine IL. (calendar maker)
-Dave Spearing the webmaster-

David Lieb wrote:
It is time for me to start working on the next Spridget calendar. For those who do not know, I have been creating calendars the last two years through the Sprite Midget Club's CafePress.com store featuring photos of Sprites and Midgets that have been submitted by actual Spridget owners. No, I do not go trolling the web looking for concours-correct cars; I solicit real photos of real cars from real people (or are you just virtual people?). Please do not send me a link to a photo site where you have pictures of every nut and bolt of your car. Choose some pictures that you like and email them to me at: spridget.calendar@ gmail.com. The higher the resolution, the happier I will be. If it is in pieces in your garage, have someone take some pictures of you working on it. This is not a contest and it is not a car show. I want real pictures of real Spridgets.

All the proceeds go directly to the Sprite-Midget Club USA http://www.sprite- midgetclub. org, the organization that brought us the Sprite 50th Celebration in the Lake of the Ozarks and will present the Midget 50th Celebration in 2011 at Road America in Elkhart Lake, WI. No, not a penny comes to me and I get to pay list price for the calendars that I buy for myself. So why do I do it? Some misguided fool (I get to see him whenever I look in the mirror) suggested this as a fund-raising possibility to the planning group of the LotO event and they thought I was volunteering ;-)

For the 2010 calendar, I would really like pictures of YOU in YOUR Spridget. Action shots are especially appreciated. Action shots also include snaps of you working on that hopeless project that your wife refers to as "the money pit". I appreciate a bit of text identifying the cars and the people, too.

Pages are still available for those who would like to create a page of photos of the Spridgets in their local group. Contact me for the details.

This is not limited to USian Spridgets, nor do the Brits need to reverse their snaps to look as if the car is LHD. CafePress is not very good about overseas orders, but if there is enough interest from overseas, we could set up a group order if someone over there is willing to re-distribute from that end.

Thanks,
David Lieb
spridget.calendar@ gmail.com